September 2018

John Lambropoulos's "animated personality completely takes over the room and leaves me wishing to do nothing more than watch my professor teach a subject he has been teaching for years,” one student says. No wonder the professor and chair of mechanical engineering is a recipient of this year's Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Read more here.

Michael Scott, the Arthur Gould Yates Professor of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science, "exemplifies the best traditions and highest achievements of academia." He is this year's recipient of the Hajim School Lifetime Achievement Award. Read more here.

May 2018

Which of these people is lying? Ehsan Hoque's research group uses data science and an online crowdsourcing framework to further our understanding of deception based on facial and verbal cues. Read more here.

New paper by Jannick Rolland's lab removes the "guesswork" from designing with freeform optics. Read more here.

A professor who puts students first: Wyatt Tenhaeff of chemical engineering is recipient of the G. Graydon Curtis ’58 and Jane W. Curtis Award for Nontenured Faculty Teaching Excellence. Read more here.

The Hajim School Art in Science competition receives a record number of submissions. Click here to see the winning entries.

April 2018

The Chem-E-Car team shows a big improvement in just its second regional competition. Read more . . .

March 2018

New, revised Hajim School clusters are more accessible to non-STEM majors. Read more . . .

Hajim School students benefit from the "real-world savvy" and a passion for teaching exhibited by a growing cadre of instructional-track faculty members. Read more on page 8 of the Hajim newsletter.

Interdisciplinary majors in geomechanics, engineering science, and interdepartmental engineering give students the flexibility to do engineering in a nontraditional way. Read more on page 6 of the Hajim newsletter.

February 2018

Augmented reality enables students to simulate reactions that would occur in a chemical plant. Read more.

From the lab of Prof. Edmund Lalor in biomedical engineering: Brain signal indicates when you understand what you've been told. Read more.

Using concerts halls as labs, ECE professors collaborate with Eastman School researcher on creating a 'visceral' sound for virtual reality. Read more.

January 2018

From the Vamivakas lab: Device creates negative mass -- and a novel way to generate lasers. Read more.

December 2017

Helen Yang '18 of Biomedical Engineering was among the students who participated in a Toys for All Tots workshop, learning to adapt battery-operated toys so they can be used by special needs children at Golisan Hospital. Read more here.

Engineering students recognized for excelling in the humanities as well. Read more here.

Prof. Wayne Knox is elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Read more here.

November 2017

During a wide-ranging 'fireside chat,' Mattel CEO Margo Georgiadis and Hajim Dean Wendi Heinzelman discuss the staggering underrepresentation of females and minorities in computer-driven technologies, and how both the toymaker and university are using emerging technologies to interest young people in science and engineering. Read more here.

Chunlei Guo and his team develop a technique to visualize, for the first time, the complete evolution of micro- and nanoscale structural formation on a material’s surface during and after a laser pulse. Read more . . .

Ghana field school will give students a chance to study historic Elmina Castle. Read more . . .

"It was hard to say goodbye." Two Hajim students help Honduran village during winter break. Read more . . .

October 2016

This image by Miguel Alonso, associate professor of optics, and collaborators at the Fresnel Institute in Marseille, shows the polarization of light emitting from each of 180 cores of an optical fiber, as measured by a device created in collaboration with Thomas Brown, professor of optics, and researchers at two Universities in France.

Prof. Kevin Parker's H-scan technology incorporates new colors in ultrasound, making it easier to interpret images. Read more here.

September 2016

Yifan Gao, PhD student in the lab of Wyatt Tenhaeff, assistant professor of chemical engineering, works with a iCVD (initiated chemical vapor deposition) reactor, which will be used to synthesize solid electrolytes for 3-D microbatteries.

Prof. Xi-Cheng Zhang and PhD student Kang Liu use exotic ring-Airy laser beam to extend the distance at which terahertz waves can be generated to detect explosives or other hidden objects. Read more here.

July 2016

Hajim undergrads get hands-on research experience this summer as Xerox fellows. Read more . . .

Asst. Prof. Qiang Lin, student help demonstrate, for first time, how 'optical spring' effect can detect single molecules. Read more . . .